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Yankee Pyramids

99% Invisible

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The Future of Presidential Libraries

As the power of the presidency has grown over the course of the twentieth century, the size of these institutions has grown as well. I think there's some public discontent with the idea of the monumentality of these places. And so gillapore and i think a lot of other professional historians just kind of wished the presidential libraries would go away. There's no particular reason those collections couldn't be housed in one central place in washington, d c.

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